After witnessing the deaths of his mother and sister as a child, Sang-hoon grew up with rage and hatred towards his father who was responsible for their deaths. The shadow of his past overrules his present. One day, he meets a high school girl, Yeon-hee, who is also having a tough life after her mother’s death four years ago. Without realizing how their lives may be connected, Sang-hoon and Yeon-hee share some moments of relief and escape from brutal physical and emotional abuse and pain they face everyday.
Marc needs the paving stones on which he walks to move, for fear of stepping on the lines. He starts a treatment to overcome his phobia.
As he learns his mother died, a man who had left for France to find a job and a living is now returning to Portugal. We follow his wanderings, the places he forgot. We feel the stranger he has become in the eyes of the other people. Gone long ago, he didn’t know then he would lose everything. He has now to grieve his own way. (Karim Shimsal)
“This is a sublimation film of notes, watercolours, travel diaries. In 1989-90, we filmed the last survivors of the Russian avant-garde movements of the 1920s and ’30s in Leningrad-Saint Petersburg, the city of Osip Emil’evic Mandel’≈°tam ‚ the author of the poem Journey to Armenia. The film is a fragment of a vast fresco recorded during the fall of the Soviet Union, with the portraits of the last witnesses of a great history that no-one had registered and who are now dead.” (Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci-Lucchi)
In a house, in Austria, a man lives apparently by himself. This is the idea he wishes to give to his neighbours, work colleagues and family. However, secretly he mantains a hostage in his basement ‚ a ten year old child, with whom he has a sexual relationship he wishes to make affectionate. A disturbing film that catches our attention immediately by the smart and subtle way in which it transfers into fiction one of the most controversial and current news that come to us about pedophilia. (Catarina Cabral)
A little boy steps in to a new world. The mother of the four-year-old Jonas brings him to his first swimming lesson. Jonas is scared and wants to go home. While trying to escape, he falls into the deep bath and nobody notices him. While floating on his swimming wings he has to try to rescue himself.
A man travels Europe. Shortly thereafter, American troops enter the ground war in Vietnam. Destination Finale is an original 8mm amateur film, shot in 1964, found in Saigon in 2005 and edited by Widmann with a sense of drama.
Plants gain a technologic life, as elements and particles become colors and shapes fabricated to interact in a lively organic dance. This is a poetic configuration that presents a computerized nature and opens to an impressive and almost infinite number of stories that can be decoded. (Ágata Pinho)
A boy drinks milk in the middle of the night.
Filmed in Ghana, Brazil, and Colombia, “Cobra Verde” is a 19th century true-life tale about a Brazilian bandit known as Cobra Verde (played by Klaus Kinski) who is exiled to West Africa to rejuvenate the slave trade. Once he’s in Africa, his sanity is put to the ultimate test. The film follows Cobra Verde’s descent into total madness and self-destruction.
Filmed in September 2005 in the new leisure centre on Main Street Ballymun. It follows a young man through the building where he works as he struggles to come to terms with his new role as a father. It is the mother of his child, who helps him to open his eyes and imagine a better future for him and his young family.
This documentary is a portrait of the band TV on the Radio as they transition from indie darlings to a major label success. We watch as they struggle to come to terms with the business side of music while trying to maintain artistic integrity. Also, there are songs.
For a long time I had been dreaming of depicting Camargue, the way I feel it to be and the way it is inhabited. It is an uncertain, incomplete territory still in the making. [‚Ķ] How to make this landscape ‚Äòtouchable’ even if it is elusive, maintaining this sensation of inaccessibility, its invisible dimension, those moments of the imperceptibility of sounds and of the images that are brought and then taken away by the wind? (Khristine Gillard)
A young woman walks through a deserted Dublin market street at night. A quietly powerful meditation on what it means to belong to a new city and a new country.
Filmed in the Grand Hall of Manchester Town Hall in October 2005 with a cast of 14 performers all 20 years of age. Carefully positioned in a circle the young people participate in a strangely unorthodox therapy session confiding their fears and hopes in the face of their futures.
Even heroes are sometimes hungry. But what can you do. The moon is full tonight and there is somebody, who really needs your help!
A film essay exploring the way Los Angeles has been presented in movies, consisting entirely of clips from other films and divided in three parts: the city as background, as character and as subject. Then maybe I can find another way to animate this city symphony in reverse. Maybe this effort to see how movies depict Los Angeles may seem more than wrong-headed of mean-spirited. Los Angeles, it is said, is the most photographed city in the world. If you walk around enough, you’ll start to notice the mysterious temporary signs that direct crew members to a movie location. If you walk through the right neighborhoods, you’ll see the long rows of white trucks that mark and fence off a location shoot. Los Angeles is where the relation between reality and representation gets muddled.
An ambitious 10 minute single take Revolution tracks over the activities at a special fund raising event to buy books for a library. All appears calm and well until dogs die, electricity cables cross, giant books topple, mouths start to bleed and things generally go awry.
